Our designer started diving beneath chilly Puget Sound in 1964, so he knows only too well how cold water can make your fingers numb. He was determined to make the warmest and most comfortable gloves on the market, so over ten years ago he pioneered "curved fingers" which closely resemble your own hand's fingers when you let them hang naturally at your sides.

This reduced fatigue in the fingers and made it easier to close your fingers on objects or to manufacture it correctly. Equally important, our gloves have only one seam on each side of the finger to practically eliminate water flow. Most companies use “box seams” - four seams down each finger. Not only are box seam gloves generally thinner then advertised (most so called 5.0 mm gloves measure out at only 4.5 mm) but box seams let in a lot of cold water through the stitching since there is twice as much stitching at the corners of the fingers.

High Tide gloves do not leak water through the finger stitching, and the PRO features a full length Seascale® armored palm. As in all of High Tide's neoprene accessories, we use only a true 5.0 mm thick commercial grade neoprene which is rated for diving to 165 feet and has three times the life span of conventional “sport” grade foam.